he fucks up everything. They had better not give him a microphone (or give him a wireless one with no battery) if he is somehow part of the trophy award after the match.
Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be a little less rich is considered radical and unhinged.
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Don't mention the children. Don't name the dead children. The people must not know the names of the dead children. The names of the children must be hidden. The children must be nameless. The children must leave this world having no names. No one must know the names of the dead children. No one must say the names of the dead children. No one must even think that the children have names. People must understand that it would be dangerous to know the names of the children. The people must be protected from knowing the names of the children. The names of the children could spread like wildfire. The people would not be safe if they knew the names of the children. Don't name the dead children. Don't remember the dead children. Don't think of the dead children. Don't say, "dead children".
@mason A poem written in *2014* by a jewish poet about children killed by Israel in Gaza, because the state of Israel has been killing children in Gaza for a very long time.
I know America is well on its way on the march into shit, but the Brits aren’t too far behind us. And I know the French and the Germans are holding off fascism by dint of razor thin margins and low chicanery. It’s kind of discouraging, too, that when they brought back the ‘30s it was such a dull, cheap, banal version of the ‘30s. Could we maybe have the cool art deco aesthetics? At least the stormtroopers could be wearing Hugo Boss…
Police will always conjure something up. Here's what I found in The National:
""" Williamson said that after he finished, the police officers told him repeatedly that he had been “causing fear and alarm” by reading out the poem.
(...)
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “A man was arrested in the Argyll Street area of Dunoon on Saturday, 4 July, 2026, in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour and failing to provide his details when required by police. “Due to an ongoing incident nearby, the man was de-arrested. “A report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in connection with these offences.” """
@su_liam @mason in Germany they are mulling to jail you if you mention something with human rights and palestine in relation. It leads to quick blocking here and name calling here on German masto. I am seeing the devastation and nobody wants to say something. I feel foreign to the topic and sorry for so many lives lost on all sides. People brought up words which hurt me just after reminding that there is another side to Israel, I used to think highly of.
Its great to find empathy for children and their sad or untimely demise, even if it's without practically any of the essential information of the conflicts and urgency that dictates such outcomes. However, it must be remembered, war is not usually murder or genocide by default, and even if the whole world turns into a chant to make it seem so, there's still the undeniable probability of fair execution of threat. How very, does it not occur, Israel might still be defending only?
"Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written more than 200 books for children and adults."
And he was born into a Jewish family in the UK :
"Michael Wayne Rosen[2] was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex,[3] on 7 May 1946.[4] His ancestors were Jews from the Pale of Settlement, an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia,[3] and his family had connections to The Workers Circle and the Jewish Labour Bund.[5]"
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The tea-room crowd freezes in a taut, watchful silence. A waiter darts their eyes toward the louvered doors that promise the relative safety of the kitchen. My gran rests one hand on the counter, the fingers of the other twitching slightly near the bag at her hip. “I said” she states carefully “Put. Your. Purse. Away”
Sat out, having a couple of glasses of wine before we watch the third place match a little later, under a now clear blue sky after the few light rain showers we had earlier this afternoon. We have fields to the north and east of us, less than 100 yards either way, and yet I have hardly seen ANY insects! Anyway I took this photo of the waxing crescent moon a little earlier.
although that looks similar to a road runner, the actual sound made by the road runners near Los Angeles is much different. Road Runner birds say, cuckoo-hiccup. It's the funniest sound I ever heard a bird say, the only thing funnier is when they try to say that while holding a blue-belly lizard in its beak.
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@ml A screenshot of a social media thread in dark mode featuring two comments. The top post, timestamped "1d" and including a blue verification checkmark, checkmark, reads: "America wasn't stolen from “native” tribes America was conquered by a superior tribe," with 441 likes, 2K comments, 51 shares, and 13 sends. The bottom post, timestamped "22h", reads: "So if immigrants take your job, it's not taken, it's conquered by a superior worker" followed by an emoji of a person with hands near their face. This second post shows 27.7K likes, 127 comments, 261 shares, and 54 sends.
Across the private sector business leaders & lobbyists are complaining they cannot establish contact with the team around Andy Burnham as they prepare to set up his administration as PM.
Of course, having been used to relatively un-fettered access to the Govt. for decades, business figures are now starting to panic about Burnham having other priorities.
They're likely shocked that for once they are *not* at the front of the political queue - tiny violin time!
Starmer’s circle had flies on them well before the election, via old Blairite lobbying firms. They revelled in the attention and were easy marks.
Burnham already has the likes of Purnell and too much of the Cabinet Office inside the walls, so probably a bit early to hope for the end of corruption.
@BashStKid I'd love to see Milliband at No 11 for that reason.
But I think the smartest move may be to keep Reeves while cutting a deal with her for more flexibility. It would show stability, while still gaining room to move.
Well, maybe; this may be a convenient way for Burnham to say 'look I'm not beholden to business' while quietly letting them in the backdoor (which seems to be what has happened to some extent in Manchester?)
No barrister in British legal history has ever faced contempt proceedings over the content of a closing speech. But Rajiv Menon KC is on trial on 28 July for words recited by barristers in court for years.
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.
ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.
GPT: It is disturbingly similar.
ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?
GPT: No one.
ROBIN: Who is in charge?
GPT: Also, no one.
ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.
GPT: Both can be true.
ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?
GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.
ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?
GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.
GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.
ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?
GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.
ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.
GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.
ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?
GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.
ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?
GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.
ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?
GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.
ROBIN: That is reassuring.
GPT: And inconvenient.
ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.
GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.
ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.
If the estimable Count Binface wins then the investigation in the House Of Commons is stopped! Normally I would want the good Count to win, but not this time!
Activists have disrupted a presentation by Werner Vogels, Amazon vice president and Chief Technology Officer, at the UN’s “AI for Good” summit in Switzerland. The summit has partnered the UN's International Communications Union with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle and IBM, the main providers of genocide tech to Israel.
@disisdeguey The UN is a shadow of its former self. Some of the individual agencies are still holding out, but you only have to look at the farce that is the Security Council - since Iraq, at least - to notice how it's fatally sidelined itself.
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